[ale] new linux box

[jeff hubbs]

> 	Hmm. Sounds like I may have been a lot luckier than I thought with
> my second CPU. When I purchased the new CPU, I knew at the time that I
> needed to have a second CPU with the same "stepping" value as my current
> CPU (stepping 7). Those vendors who did not know what stepping values they
> sold didn't get my business. Of those that did, then price became the
> issue. Sounds like I was lucky to find CPUs with the same stepping value
> (and there were quite a few stepping 7 PPro 200/256's out there).
> 
> 	I appreciate the comments of others; as, when I do purchase a new
> machine (eventually), I'll keep in mind such comments. 
> 

Just last week, I lucked out with a $5 P/133 from Microseconds, putting 
it in the second socket of an old Intergraph TD-30 workstation. 
/proc/cpuinfo reports the exact same info on both chips.  I've been 
having a lot of fun running kernel compiles with "make bzImage -j 7" and 
so forth.

- Jeff


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